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Teaching what you know online can be the best thing you can do for your audience. More and more bloggers, entrepreneurs, and freelancers are adding online courses in addition to their blogs.
It’s a great way to help others while establishing yourself as an expert in your field.
One of the first things you’re going to need when launching a course is a piece of software for creating your content.
Courses are not the same as blog posts. For one, a course needs to be accessed by registered students and not just anyone who lands on your site. It doesn’t matter if you’re offering a free or paid course, you need to have some kind of student profile to track your students’ progress.
The next feature for paid courses is a payment gateway. There should be a way for you to accept payment when a user enrolls in your course.
PayPal, Stripe, and 2Checkout are popular online payment gateways that are available for online course integration.
These and more features are … [Read more...] about 5 Best WordPress Plugins For Creating Online Courses

I believe there is no point repeating why WordPress is the best blogging platform and what the benefits are of using WordPress.
Harsh has already shared a handy guide to installing WordPress, and you can follow his extensive WordPress guide for more information about WordPress.
Instead, I’m going to list out some of the basic WordPress plugins which you should consider installing on your blog.
Most of these are free basic WP plugins, and a couple of them at the bottom are bonuses which will take your blog to the next level of optimization.
So you want to start blogging on a new WordPress blog and you still don’t know which plugins to get. I’ll show you which ones are the most popular out there and which ones every WP blog is using.
Read: Essential Settings After Installing WordPress
You can start a new WordPress blog very easily and try to figure out everything on your own. Or, you can use this handy list of plugins for your new installation … [Read more...] about Basic WordPress Plugins for Every WordPress Blog

Earlier I have shared a guide on moving WordPress site manually and it was one of the most read tutorials of ShoutMeLoud. Today, I’m extending the series by adding a new way to migrate WordPress site to new server and this time; it will be easier than the last time.
I have tried and tested this method on few of my sites, and migration happened within few minutes and without any problem.
In this guide, I will be taking help of a free WordPress plugin call Duplicator, which let you migrate WordPress site in few easy steps. You can use this plugin to:
Migrate WordPress site from one server to another
Migrate locally developer WordPress to live server
Clone live server WordPress site on your local desktop server
For this tutorial, I will take example of moving the site from one live server to another.
It was unplanned move, as for long I wanted to move away from HostGator and wanted to try SiteGround hosting. Since Siteground is a non-EIG hosting and I heard … [Read more...] about How To Use Duplicator WordPress Plugin to Migrate WordPress Hosting: DIY Guide

Plugins extend WordPress to do anything you can imagine.
You likely have many plugins on your site, but does your WordPress blog have the essential plugins?
Let me point out a few plugins that will improve your site’s user experience and make WordPress admin tasks easier.
These 10 WordPress plugins are extremely useful for every blogger and webmaster on the WordPress platform.
1. SEO by Yoast
Having an SEO plugin is essential for any WordPress blog to rank higher in search engines. This helps you to drive free traffic from search engines.
This plugin is a serious must-have for every WordPress blog out there. I have never seen any other free SEO plugin come even close to being as powerful and effective.
With this one plugin, you can cover all of your on-site and on-page SEO.
This plugin comes in free & pro versions.
Watch the below video to learn how to set up the plugin:
<Download SEO by Yoast>
2. WP Super … [Read more...] about 10 Surprisingly Useful WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Use in 2017

It was one scary night, when Google decided to roll out a wild animal on the farm of Bloggers call Panda. When ShoutMeLoud got hit by Panda, I was stunned and realize, I must be doing something wrong that’s why I got hit and similarly any other blogger who got struck by panda traffic drop, we must be making mistakes in terms of anything (Content, SEO, Backlinks), and that’s why Panda hurt him hard.
Anyways, now since there is no escaping from Google Panda, we have to work and fix content and blog and make it a Google eye candy. Here I’m going to list few Google Panda WordPress plugins, as I named it..You can use them to fix your site and make your blog panda love blog.
Why do you need These Panda WordPress plugins?
These are normal SEO plugins that we use but I’m listing them in one place, so that you can do a specific job with them and make sure your blog is SEO error free, and your blog starts getting same traffic from Google search. One thing, which you … [Read more...] about Google Panda WordPress Plugins to Kick Panda Back to Jungle

When ever a new blogger look out to make money from their blog using AdSense, one of the first few thing he needs is an AdSense account and easiest way to insert AdSense ads on their blog. So far, there are unlimited AdSense plugins for WordPress out there, and they all work differently. The hard part is deciding which plugin to use, and her is new official plugin from Google to make your life easier. Google launched a new plugin and first in WordPress plugin repo with the name “Google publisher plugin” and at the time of writing this plugin is in beta. In this post, I will share how you can configure and use this plugin with your WordPress blog, and my viewpoint after testing this plugin. How to Setup Google Publisher WordPress plugin for AdSense First of all you need an AdSense account to use this plugin, and if you don’t have one, here is one guide which will help you with the sign-up process. If your earlier AdSense application was rejected, check out this handy … [Read more...] about Blogger Guide To Setup Official Google AdSense WordPress Plugin

Apart from being the most popular and widely supported content management system on the planet, one of the biggest draws of WordPress is its almost limitless customizability. In this post, we run through 30 WordPress plugins that we have either used or continue to use and can personally vouch for. These plugins will help you with speeding up your website, making it more secure, adding functionality, and just making it more beautiful. 1. Akismet Fight spam like a boss. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. It’s completely automated and facilitates easier moderation. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links and moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. Oh, and it’s free for … [Read more...] about 30 WordPress Plugins to Make Your Site Better, Faster, Stronger

The Sitemap is one such SEO requirement that is essential for your blog organic search engine traffic. In the past I have talked about best sitemap plugins for WordPress & today one of the most popular WordPress plugins; Jetpack added the sitemap functionality. Since sitemap feature is so vital & if you are using any other Sitemap plugin apart from SEO by Yoast, you can use Sitemap module of Jetpack & lower down your number of plugins. Along with Sitemap functionality, the latest version of Jetpack has added more features such as Skype sharing button & social menu. In this guide, I will walk you through the Sitemap feature of Jetpack plugin & other notable features added by them in the recent past. If you are new to Jetpack plugin, you should read this beginners guide to Jetpack & watch the below video to learn more about it. Once you are done going through the beginners guide to Jetpack, do check out this guide to learn about activating & deactivating any … [Read more...] about Generate Sitemap for WordPress with Jetpack WordPress Plugin

This post is part of the “Start A Blog” series. WordPress is a full-fledged content management system (CMS), and there are a couple of technical things to know about when you start using WordPress. Installing WordPress plugins is one thing that every self-hosted WordPress blogger should know how to do. Technically, WordPress offers three ways to install WordPress plugins on your blog:
Search and install Upload and install FTP
In the FTP method, you upload the plugin using an FTP software such as FileZilla or CyberDuck. You then activate and configure it. In the other two methods, you search, find, install, and activate the plugin with a few simple clicks. Search For & Install Plugin From WordPress Dashboard Installing a plugin from the WordPress dashboard is the easiest way. If you know the name of the plugin, you can directly search from the dashboard and install it. Simply log into your blog’s dashboard and click on Plugins > Add New. Then type your search … [Read more...] about 3 Different Ways To Install WordPress Plugin

Over a period of 7 & half years of blogging, I have tried and tested many WordPress plugins. Based on my research and experience , I have created a secret list of plugins which I use on all my blogs. As a part of transparency culture, I will be sharing this exclusive list of plugins with you today.
Do remember, these plugins are the outcome of my years of experience with blogging. So you can save your time, and pick the best plugin for your blog.
If you have just started with WordPress, you should first read: How to install WordPress plugins. Do remember, I keep changing our plugins, so I suggest you to bookmark this page and keep checking after a month to see the updated list of plugins.
The list is not in any particular order, and at the time of writing (January 2016), these are the WordPress plugins which power ShoutMeLoud.
Note: Right now ShoutMeloud is using Genesis Theme + Custom skin design.
Here is a quick list:
Ad injection: For adding … [Read more...] about WordPress Plugins That Powers ShoutMeLoud To Success